Maifest 2025

Join us for the 4th annual Maifest, the Midwest’s largest gluten-free food festival, right here outside Lakefront Brewery on Sunday, May 18th, from 11 am to 3 pm. Since we brewed New Grist Pilsner, the nation’s first Certified Gluten-Free beer, we began to understand how underserved the regional gluten-free community is. Our first Maifest was an instant success, and we continue to raise the bar and increase our offerings with our fourth installment. This year’s event will shift its focus to providing an array of over 30 vendors featuring all gluten-free food items alongside 9 food trucks exclusively serving gluten-free items. Show up hungry, folks!

Lakefront’s all gluten-free CurdWagon will be serving up the gluten-free version of our award-winning fried curds with the following food trucks providing plenty of other good eats:
> Big City BBQ
> Clean Cruisine
> EZ Tiki
> Fork N Fry Poutinerie
> Girl’s Got Balls
> Pedro’s South American
> Tots on the Street
> Troublemakers Cocina
We’ve added a Cheese Curd Express Lane to get our gluten-free curds in as many hands as possible! New this year – help us crown Milwaukee’s best gluten-free mac and cheese with the first annual Mac n’ Chz Matchup. Submit your vote and witness the celebrity judges as they try each one.

We got gluten-free drinks! Not only will we be pouring all of our gluten-free options, but the ever-so-popular gluten-free cask beers are back with four flavors to choose from:
> Mango Chile Gosa Rita
> Honey Saffron New Grist IPA
> Arnold Palmer New Grist
> Mimosa New Grist
Gluten-free Bloody Marys will be pouring-a-plenty for those interested! Wine, soda, and limited gluten and NA beer options will also be available and carefully labeled.

Live music will be provided by Happy Shotski Polka and Jack Tell. Saunter through Milwaukee’s longest patio, take in views of the Milwaukee River and skyline as you sip and nosh on the best gluten-free food Milwaukee has to offer. This is a kid-friendly event; bring the whole family down for some fun. While this isn’t a pet-centric event, well-behaved pups are welcome to attend if they’re interested.

Purchase tickets to our 50/50 raffle as we raise funds for the Gluten Intolerance Group (with Cutting Costs for Celiacs) and Bonnie Lynn Mechanic Celiac Disease Clinic for Children’s Wisconsin. Proceeds from the Mac n’ Chz Matchup will also be donated.
This event is free to attend, rain or shine; come on down!

VENDORS
Old Country Style Nuts
Pink Fusion Spices
Cooking with Kati
Devour Gluten Free
Olympia Granola
Bunny’s Bite
Bethmayhem Bakery
Create Cafe
The Cracked Pig
Batters That Matter
Buzzshack Apiaries
Creative Crusts Pizza
Original Empanoli® by Papole Foods
Tabal Chocolate
Chillwaukee
Hiawatha Woodworks
MOR Bakehouse MKE
Scrump
My Keto Corner Inc.
MJD Apiary
Impossibly GlutenFree
Rustic Made Holdings WI
1146 Vegan
Yayas Skordalia “Greek Almond Dip”
Waffle Blox
La Cosecha Tortilla Co.
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Questions and vendor inquiries can be directed to [email protected]. However, we are full and on a waiting list at this time.